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Old 10-09-2013, 07:41 AM
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Hey everyone. I'm familiar with setting playback buffers and stuff in order to have as little latency as possible. However recently I've been paying closer attention and realizing tracks are playing back just a tad ahead of where I played them. These are instrument tracks and live audio tracks. When recording everything is LOCKED. However on playback things are a tad ahead. Any suggestions? My buffer usually is at 128 when recording.

This is something I've noticed in Pro Tools 10 and 11.

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Hey everyone. I'm familiar with setting playback buffers and stuff in order to have as little latency as possible. However recently I've been paying closer attention and realizing tracks are playing back just a tad ahead of where I played them. These are instrument tracks and live audio tracks. When recording everything is LOCKED. However on playback things are a tad ahead. Any suggestions? My buffer usually is at 128 when recording.

This is something I've noticed in Pro Tools 10 and 11.

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Hi,

So these instrument tracks is it midi you are talking about here? or have you bounced to audio.

Do you have delay compensation turned on?

What is your routing from the instrument tracks to the left/right output



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Hi,

So these instrument tracks is it midi you are talking about here? or have you bounced to audio.

Do you have delay compensation turned on?

What is your routing from the instrument tracks to the left/right output



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The instrument tracks are midi. Others are live audio via DI. Like some guitar stuff with Amp Sims.

Delay Compensation is on. It's on the lowest setting.
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What is your routing from the instrument tracks to the left/right output
IOW - what's the signal chain from the virtual instrument to your interface? Do you get the same result if you record with ADC off?
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Hey everyone. I'm familiar with setting playback buffers and stuff in order to have as little latency as possible. However recently I've been paying closer attention and realizing tracks are playing back just a tad ahead of where I played them. These are instrument tracks and live audio tracks. When recording everything is LOCKED. However on playback things are a tad ahead. Any suggestions? My buffer usually is at 128 when recording.

This is something I've noticed in Pro Tools 10 and 11.

Thanks
I've experienced the same thing in every version of Pro Tools from the early 2000s on, including the current 20.3.0.163. I have to shift everything I play ahead some milliseconds to match the beat.
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